Forest Products Industry Calculation Tools

Reid Miner, Brad Upton, Jim Palumbo, NCASI Member Associations of ICFPA

Greenhouse gas emissions - Pulp and paper mills Sponsored by ICFPA Version 1.0 released 2001 Version 1.1 released 2005 Includes report and Excel spreadsheet Accepted for use under WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol www.ghgprotocol.org

Greenhouse gas emission tools - Pulp and paper mills Coverage

Fossil fuel combustion - stationary & mobile sources CH4 and N2O from biomass combustion Process-related emissions CH4 from landfills and anaerobic wastewater treatment Indirect emissions from purchased power Special topics
Reporting CO2 releases from biomass combustion Kraft mill lime kilns CHP emissions allocation Power and steam exports

Other inventory issues (e.g. boundaries, materiality) covered by specific programs

Greenhouse gas emissions - Wood product manufacturing Sponsored by ICFPA Version 1.0 released 2005 Includes report and Excel spreadsheet Accepted for use under WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol www.ghgprotocol.org

Greenhouse gas emission tools - Wood product manufacturing Coverage

Fossil fuel combustion, stationary & mobile sources CH4 and N2O from biomass combustion CH4 from landfills and anaerobic wastewater treatment Indirect emissions from purchased power Special topics
Reporting CO2 releases from biomass combustion CHP emissions allocation Power and steam exports

Other inventory issues (e.g. boundaries, materiality) covered by specific accounting programs

Acceptance of the ICFPA/NCASI greenhouse gas emissions tools

Official uses
Accepted under WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol Resource in developing EU ETS guidelines Resource in developing Canadian requirements

ICFPA/NCASI tools, or systems based on them, are used extensively in the industry
3/4 of North American production, including essentially all mills in Canada Global use

Carbon sequestration tool - carbon in products-in-use Sponsored by ICFPA First draft released late 2004 Revised draft released Nov. 2005 Includes report and spreadsheet with userfriendly interface Submitted to WRI and WBCSD for review

Why include carbon in products?

Sequestration in products is an important part of the industrys global carbon profile Direct emissions
~ 72 million tonnes C eq. per year

Annual growth in carbon stored in products in use

~ 40 million tonnes C per year *

Estimate from IPCC Harvested Wood Products Experts Technical Report

The 100-year method

Calculates tonnes of C in current production that will remain sequestered for 100 years
Fraction of product remaining in use

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Multiply these fractions by the amounts of carbon in the respective products Co in pap manufactured pya given year.

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Time

100 years

Time in use
Primary products
(IPCC 2005 default guidance) Half Life in Use (years) Sawnwood Structural panels Nonstructural panels Paper 35 30 20 2 Single-family homes Multifamily homes Residential Upkeep Mobile homes Nonresidential construction Pallets Manufacturing Furniture Railroad ties Paper (free sheet) Paper (all others)

Final products in commerce

(Skog and Nicholson) Half Life in Use (years) 100 70 50 20 67 6 12 30 30 6 1

My inventory OSB Production for 2004

All data, conversion factors, assumptions, etc. documented in the underlying spreadsheet

ICFPA/NCASI product carbon sequestration calculation tool

A corporate inventory tool for estimating carbon sequestration in products Report and spreadsheet available on NCASI web site www.ncasi.org Follow navigation menus to; programs/climate change/carbon in forest products

Tools for corporate accounting of forest carbon sequestration

Industrial forests not normally managed to accumulate carbon But for interested companies, there are options For instance
IPCC national inventory methods WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol Project Standard Specific program guidance
Canadian Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBMCFS3) U.S., Carbon On-Line Estimator (COLE)

http://carbon.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/downloads_e.html

http://ncasi.uml.edu/COLE/cole.html

Optimizing forest management for carbon and other objectives

Tools are needed to help optimize forest management across multiple objectives
Saw timber and pulp wood output Target age class distribution Clear cut and adjacency constraints Wildlife habitat and corridors Conservation and sensitive area set-asides Carbon

Habplan Software for Spatial Forest Harvest Scheduling

Habplan

Descriptive data and management constraints entered for each polygon Much of the information can be directly uploaded from common forest management software programs Management objectives (targets) are weighted by user

Target forest output

Actual forest output Age class distribution Clear cut size constraints and green up requirements Other environmental constraints entered in polygon data sets, e.g. corridors special habitat Actual ~ Target

Carbon accumulation Target Actual

http://ncasi.uml.edu/projects/habplan/

Other tools for value chain and substitution effects

TimberCAM

http://www.greenhouse.crc.org.au/calculators/timbercam/

Summary
Variety of tools available for corporate inventories A number of these have been accepted by the industry globally, working under the auspices of ICFPA
ICFPA/NCASI Corporate inventory tools for greenhouse gas emissions related to pulp, paper, and wood product manufacturing ICFPA/NCASI Corporate inventory tools for carbon stored in products in use

Tools for corporate inventory accounting of forest carbon

Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBMCFS3) C.O.L.E. (U.S. based, USFS data driven) Habplan (allows companies to optimize harvest scheduling considering forest carbon values and other forest outputs and values)

Tools also available for value chain accounting using methods less suited to corporate inventory accounting
TimberCAM

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